I already posted this in a thread that I made asking for advice on tri-sli'ing some gtx580's, but I'll post it in here because I'm an attention whore of the first degree...

BTW: I only have 2xGTX295's and I have it overclocked to 4.2GHz stable on water, that is why the temp is a bit higher than ambient (although, I don't always run it oc'd). Also, I was remote desktopping when I took this, so my resolution was dependent on my laptops display (I have a Samsung T260HD and a 226BW running at 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 respectively).

How is that Striker II Extreme? Did they get the memory eating issues taken care of?

It's terrible, although I haven't had any memory eating issues (yet). But besides that, it's very unstable and doesn't have proper AHCI support for my SSD. I can't blame Asus for it though, NVIDIA's 790i chipset is just horrible. I'd swap it out for another one any day.

It's terrible, although I haven't had any memory eating issues (yet). But besides that, it's very unstable and doesn't have proper AHCI support for my SSD. I can't blame Asus for it though, NVIDIA's 790i chipset is just horrible. I'd swap it out for another one any day.

Yeah, I went through three Striker Extremes. I actually still have one brand new in the box that ASUS sent me after my last RMA. I bought a EVGA 780i mobo after all that trouble (and six sets of RAM) and haven't looked at ASUS since. Shame, really, as ASUS had such a great track record (I built one of my best rigs out of a P5A w/AMD K6-2 450MHz way back when). I've heard that their X58 mobos aren't bad, but I'm going to stick with EVGA from now on (until their stuff turns to shit).

I already posted this in a thread that I made asking for advice on tri-sli'ing some gtx580's, but I'll post it in here because I'm an attention whore of the first degree...

BTW: I only have 2xGTX295's and I have it overclocked to 4.2GHz stable on water, that is why the temp is a bit higher than ambient (although, I don't always run it oc'd). Also, I was remote desktopping when I took this, so my resolution was dependent on my laptops display (I have a Samsung T260HD and a 226BW running at 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 respectively).

Well I guess it's okay if you didn't really have much of a choice in the matter.

I managed to convince him to buy a better graphics card afterwords. the 3870 was pretty good at the time, i got it double used (so it was almost 30% off). Apparently the two people who bought it before didn't have the right motherboard.

Recent build from about a week ago, the only downside to this is that this motherboard does not have Hyper Transport 3 and the other PCI-X16 slot runs at X4 speed. But other wise good for the money. And I do plan on buying a new graphics card along the 6xxxx line.

Desktop:
Yeah, my CPU's old, but it can run everything I've thrown at it. Hell, back on the 6100 and 1 GB RAM I managed to get the Crysis demo working (somehow).

The only thing I've thrown at this hardware setup that has had any major problem is Beat Hazard. The fucker causes my graphics card to overheat and I have no idea why, especially since none of my other games do. I realize I probably need better cooling but whatever.

Laptop:
OK, I have no fucking clue why my graphics card gets hot here. SpeedFan didn't detect any actual fans, that might be it. Or I might just need to crack her open with a screwdriver and blow some serious dust out of it.